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Welcome to this week’s edition of Boom or Bust! This week’s topic is Las Vegas 51s starting pitching, Jacob deGrom. It’s been an interesting year for the right-hander, now two years removed from Tommy John surgery. He’s pitched in three different levels of the minors, finding a home in

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The Mets had a verbal agreement with outfielder Ricardo Cespedes — and finally made it official yesterday when he turned sixteen. He signed for $725K. Here’s a blurb from BA about him… Last year Jhon Carmona trained Dominican shortstop Amed Rosario, whose $1.75 million bonus from the Mets was the biggest of

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As of 9:00am EST today, here are today’s Mets minor league starting pitchers: Fresno Grizzlies @ Las Vegas 51s 10:05pm EST TBD vs. Rafael Montero (5-3, 3.27 ERA) PCL League Scoreboard Montero’s last start wasn’t like his last four, but he still pitched pretty well. On August 20th against

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I’ve got a quick update that I would’ve slipped into a St. Lucie game recap if we had one — but their game was rained out last night and they’ll attempt to make it up as part of a double-header today. Michael Fulmer was placed on the DL yesterday,

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West Virginia 6, Savannah 3 The Savannah Sand Gnats and the West Virginia Power played a double header Saturday afternoon at Grayson Stadium. West Virginia won the first game 6-3 and Savannah won the second game 6-1. In the 2nd inning, West Virginia scored three runs. Leading off the

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Las Vegas 2, Fresno 1 The 51s won yet another game — this time behind Matt Fox, who turned in seven stellar innings of one-run ball to pick up his seventh win of the year. Robert Carson and Greg Burke combined for the final six outs while allowing just

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Binghamton 10, Akron 2 –Darin Gorski baffled the Akron Aeros for seven innings and the Binghamton Mets unleashed a 13-hit attack in a 10-2 victory on Saturday night at Canal Park. Cory Vaughn and Xorge Carrillo each drove in three runs to aid the B-Mets in their 82nd win

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Brooklyn 2, Vermont 0 Robert Gsellman struck out a career-high 13 batters over 8.0 shutout innings as Brooklyn defeated the Vermont Lake Monsters 2-0 on Saturday night. Gsellman’s 13 strikeouts are tied for the third most in franchise history and are the most by a Brooklyn hurler since Brad Holt tied

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After the Kingsport Mets picked up another shutout victory last night, I noticed something pretty cool — they had picked up three consecutive victories while allowing no runs. In fact, dating back to Monday, the K-Mets haven’t allowed a run in 31.0 straight innings. Just step back for a

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As I noted in my first post announcing this event, the B-Mets set out to be what will become a long line of minor league organizations partnering with the Dave Clark Foundation in bringing two great worlds together, which are the D3 Baseball campers and the professional athletes on

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